No, not the band. 1928 REO 1947 REO 1953 REO REO Speed Tanker (Uncertain Year) REO (Uncertain Year) REO (Uncertain Year) REO Speed Wagon (Uncertain Year)
@Ken Anderson Beautiful pictures! My Dad loved to reminisce about his youthful days and cars (he was 41 when I was born), and he could identify instantly a make and model on sight, just as I can now of '50s models, but to me as a kid, those old cars all looked pretty much alike. He mentioned REO fairly often, giving it high respect. Frank
When it came time for a new (used) car, my dad would try out a large variety of makes and models before buying a Ford station wagon. The family car was always a Ford station wagon. The farm truck was a Ford pickup truck, and his tractor was a Ford.
I spent most of my childhood bouncing around or sleeping in the back of an old Ford station wagon. Ours was white when my father purchased it but he chewed tobacco so over the years the driver's side turned brown and the passenger side remained white. It seems like many cities had automobile companies years ago. My city had Moyer and Franklin.
The automobile brand REO was made from the initials R. E. O., which stood for Ransom E. Olds, from which the Oldsmobile brand came. Hal
@Ken Anderson Ford family, then. I wonder whether their Ford preference was brand-loyalty driven or rather experience-driven, where other brands had failed them. Frank
My dad had some long-vanished brands of cars that most of you never heard of...certainly not you "kids" in your sixties! Hal
Growing up in Wichita Falls, Texas, next to a park I frequented was a small plant. There was always three or four Rio trucks in their yard, boom trucks, winch trucks, trucks with gin poles, bobtails, and two or three or more inside the facility. I remember when this facility closed. It was before I went in the army so it must have been around '49 or '50. Anyway i never did know exactly what kind of facility this was, only that it always had Rio Trucks and maybe an old White Freightliner parked inside their fence. It could have beena small manufacturing plant or maybe a repair shop that catered to trucks or Rio's. Anyway it is the first place I saw the name Rio and learned that a Rio was a vehicle.
Studebaker had the longest history in America's Automotive business. They began by producing Covered Wagons! Here's a car like the one I learned to drive in at age 13: A 1938 Studebaker Commander. It had Overdrive and a Hill Holder. Hal
I like the second photo. It would make a great puzzle to balance another one that I haven't pieced together yet.
I can remember as far back as the early 1940's, when the family car was a 1935 Hupmobile. Later we had a big 1928 Hudson Super Six, which was the car that resettled us in California in December 1944. (Picture after text...but our Hudson had side-mount spare tires) Later, Dad had a 1934 Nash Lafayette, a 1937 Packard Six, a 1938 Studebaker, a 1941 DeSoto (with Fluid Drive yet!), a 1947 Hudson, and a 1949 Hudson, with step-down interior. Hal